Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WILKINSON'S NEWEST work, Moonshine, tries to do the same thing, unfolding the story of Garland Bunting, "probably the most successful revenue agent in the history of a state that has been enormously productive of moonshine...
...wheelchair, had been killed and his body thrown overboard. Abbas and P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, among others, had publicly questioned whether Klinghoffer had actually been shot. The Syrian government of President Hafez Assad, a foe of Arafat's, quickly reported the discovery of the corpse, and an FBI agent flew to Damascus to help make an identification based on Klinghoffer's dental records. Later the body was flown to Rome, where it was confirmed that Klinghoffer had suffered gunshot wounds to both the head and chest...
...valuable an asset Howard was for the KGB is a matter of some dispute. The CIA insists that he was never a double agent, working for the Soviets at the same time he was an agency employee. In an affidavit filed last week in Albuquerque, the FBI said a confidential source claimed that Howard sold information to the KGB last year in Europe. Senator Dave Durenberger, the Minnesota Republican who chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence, told CBS News that Howard could have caused a security leak "as serious as anything this country has seen in the past." Howard...
...could. After hanging around studio gates for several months, he was introduced to famed Agent Henry Willson. "You're not bad looking. Can you act?" asked Willson. "No," said the young man. "What did you say, feller?" asked the incredulous agent. "I said, no, I can't act." To which Willson replied: "Good. I think I can do something for you. Sit down." Willson transformed Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson and secured him an apprenticeship in one of the biggest film factories, Universal Pictures. Fighter Squadron (1948) was his first film. During the next six years, 25 others followed, like...
...small Texas company called Detox Industries has developed microbes that eat PCBs, creosote and pentachlorophenol. Microbiologist Ananda Chakrabarty of the University of Illinois in Chicago has used a patented "molecular breeding" process to achieve the evolution of a bug that can convert the chief ingredient of the herbicide Agent Orange, 2,4,5-T, into carbon dioxide and chloride. In laboratory tests, his bacteria are so dependent upon the chemical that once they have consumed whatever is available they...